‖ gradatim, adv.
(grəˈdeɪtɪm)
[L. gradātim by degrees, f. gradus step.]
Step by step, gradually.
| 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abuses F iiij b, Three or foure degrees of minor ruffes, placed gradatim, step by step one beneath another. 1669 Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 301 The vast quantities of water that flow over our heads in stormy or rainy weather, which..do gradatim diffuse themselves upon the Earth. 1694 Salmon Bate's Dispens. i. (1713) 132/1 Make a gentle Fire first, which increase gradatim to the fourth Degree. 1785 D. Low Chiropodologia xii. 104 Let them be bathed in water, tepid at first, and rendered afterwards, gradatim, more warm. |